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The Steele Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$11MHealth$1.7MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MScience & Tech$1.1MHuman Services$897kFood & Nutrition$792kCrime & Legal$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $600k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$12,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Arizona Foundation$2,025,000
Barrow Neurological Foundation$500,000
Arizona Jewish Historical Society$262,500
Literacy Connects$110,000
Childsplay$105,000
ASU Foundation$100,000
Teach for America$90,000
College Vista Preparatory Inc$75,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
Mesa Arts Center Foundation$50,000
Liberty Wildlife$40,000
Rosie's House A Music Academy$35,000
The Salvation Army$27,000
Ballet Arizona$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Support My Club: $25k → 11%Support My Club: $10k → 11%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $10k → 11%Support My Club: $10k → 11%Support My Club: $10k → 11%Support My Club: $3k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $200k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $50k → 11%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $10k → 11%Nourish PHX: $70k → 11%Nourish PHX: $45k → 11%Nourish Phoenix: $25k → 11%NOURISH PHX: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 51 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
59

Total granted

$17M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+1%

Still filing today

57%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +54%
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +63%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • RH
    Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -47%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
2
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
3
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
4
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
5
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
6
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
7
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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8
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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9
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
10
Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter
11
Science Foundation Arizona

Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.

Philanthropy
12
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Native Women Scholars Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr11%59%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
16%
3,505/21,280

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
37/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation — $5,228,100 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,225,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NE…Make Way For Books — $550,000 · EducationMake Way For BooksLITERACY CONNECTS — $410,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $290,000 · Education+8 more — $674,394 · Education+8 moreBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $1,048,250 · OtherBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORYIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALL SAINT'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherALL SAINT'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOLDonors Choose — $450,000 · OtherDonors ChooseArizona Jewish Historical Society — $300,000 · OtherFlorence Immigrant Refugee Rights — $279,942 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA — $250,000 · Other+81 more — $3,319,902 · Other+81 moreARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCI…THE HEARD MUSEUM — $345,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD M…CHILDSPLAY INC — $315,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDSPLAY …MESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $205,156 · Arts & CultureMESA ARTS C…ACT ONE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $85,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,575,000 · Health+3 more — $75,000 · HealthARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,395,000 · PhilanthropyValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $260,000 · Human ServicesNOURISHPHX — $165,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORT MY CLUB — $67,500 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$8,377,494Other$6,898,094Arts & Culture$2,110,156Health$1,650,000Philanthropy$1,395,000Human Services$502,500Housing & Shelter$460,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $5,228,100 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,575,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,395,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,225,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $1,000,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMake Way For Books — $550,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $410,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $345,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDSPLAY INC — $315,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetArizona Jewish Historical Society — $300,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $290,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $260,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA — $250,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC — $220,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $205,156 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $205,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISHPHX — $165,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC — $136,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $110,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetACT ONE — $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Food Bank — $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $95,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $85,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSUPPORT MY CLUB — $67,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA — $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN SCHOLARS INC — $43,394 over 3y, 41% of budgetBLUE WATERMELON PROJECT INC — $40,552 over 1y, 21% of budgetLiberty Wildlife Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX — $33,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUNDS ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetDIGITAL CITIZEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBHHS Legacy Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSharsheret Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesPhoenix Suns Charitie…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Burton Family Foundat…American Express Foun…John F Long Foundatio…The Diane and Bruce H…BHHS Legacy FoundationThe Foundation for Co…Valley of the Sun Uni…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ59.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Burton Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Valley of the Sun United Way

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Steele Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Education Resource Strategies Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Steele Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Steele Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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